| Title: | DECWINDOWS 26-JAN-89 to 29-NOV-90 |
| Notice: | See 1639.0 for VMS V5.3 kit; 2043.0 for 5.4 IFT kit |
| Moderator: | STAR::VATNE |
| Created: | Mon Oct 30 1989 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Dec 31 1990 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 3726 |
| Total number of notes: | 19516 |
Also, move this to programming if it is still around...
What XLIB calls can I make to force a window to be sticky?
I can't seem to find any documentation on this anywhere except
maybe with UIL. But there must be a counterpart XLIB - I reason?
thanks,
jjjones
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| 971.1 | AITG::DERAMO | Daniel V. {AITG,ZFC}:: D'Eramo | Sat Jun 17 1989 22:13 | 5 | |
Do you mean the DECwindows window manager "sticky"
with the push-to-back button/decoration/whatever?
Dan
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| 971.2 | I would think you would... | NEURON::NICHOLSON | A belly as big as an oil spill | Sun Jun 18 1989 16:42 | 7 |
Create a DECWmHints property on your top level window. You load this
property with a DECWmHintsRec structure in which you set the "sticky"
field to true and the DECWmStickyMask bit in the "value_mask" field.
I don't know if there is a convenience routine to do this or not
and am at home with no documentation.
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| 971.3 | Making the Icon Box sticky from XDEFAULTS.DAT | PVX::VANSICLEN | WS Program Office <ML5-2/P60> 223-6310 | Thu Jun 22 1989 09:20 | 17 |
Talking of sticky... I want to have just myIcon Box startup as being sticky. So, in my SYS$LOGIN:DECW$XDEFAULTS.DAT I tried - wm*sticky: true This set ALL windows sticky. No good. So then I tried... wm*iconBox.sticky: true This doesn't do anything. What am I doing wrong? All my other modifactions to the Icon Box work. Many thanks - garrett | |||||
| 971.4 | Mostly useful solution | CASEE::CLEOVOULOU | Marios Cleovoulou | Thu Jun 22 1989 11:36 | 12 |
Well, I use the following, which seems to catch _most_ cases. I still
get some apps (like FileView, for instance) that come up sticky though.
*sticky: False
*Sticky: False
wm*sticky: True
wm*Sticky: True
Regards,
Marios
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| 971.5 | How to get sticky from XLIB | ISOSPN::HIRST | Lean, Mean, Fast | Fri Oct 13 1989 09:39 | 59 |
I asked almost the same thing in the DECwindows programming conf yesterday
(because I could not get in here). Since then I have worked out the solution
for myself so here is the note I put in the other conf.
Note the DEC_WM_HINTS property is used to set sticky windows.
<<< HARBOR::SHPLOG$DUA1:[NOTES$LIBRARY]DECWINDOWS_PROGRAMMING.NOTE;1 >>>
-< DECwindows Programming hints/kinks >-
================================================================================
Note 479.4 Window Manager DEC_WM_HINTS property 4 of 4
ISOSPN::HIRST "Lean, Mean, Fast" 45 lines 13-OCT-1989 07:04
-< I've found the format >-
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Just to let anybody else who wants to know how to do something similar I have
found the format of the DEC_WM_HINTS property.
It is in 32 bit format with 9 elements, each element corresponds to a field in
the DECWmHintsRec data structure (extracted from DECWMHINTS.H)
typedef struct {
unsigned long value_mask;
Pixmap iconify_pixmap;
int icon_box_x;
int icon_box_y;
Bool tiled;
Bool sticky;
Bool no_iconify_button;
Bool no_lower_button;
Bool no_resize_button;
} DECWmHintsRec, *DECWmHints;
To set the property you need to do something like
.
.
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Atom DEC_WM_HINTS;
int dec_wm_hints[9];
DEC_WM_HINTS = XInternAtom( display, "DEC_WM_HINTS", 1 );
dec_wm_hints[0] = 80; /* Value Mask */
dec_wm_hints[5] = 1; /* Sticky */
dec_wm_hints[7] = 1; /* No Lower Button */
XChangeProperty( display,
window,
DEC_WM_HINTS,
DEC_WM_HINTS,
32,
PropModeReplace,
dec_wm_hints,
9 );
.
.
.
Steve
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